Mark Hoffman

KNBC-TV Names Bill Lord Vice President/News Director: Lord, who is currently news director of KIRO-TV in Seattle, will assume his position at KNBC the week of April 17, said KNBC President and General Manager Carole Black. Lord succeeds Mark Hoffman, who left the station in September following a series of disagreements with station executives and newsroom staffers.

KNBC-TV Names Bill Lord Vice President/News Director: Lord, who is currently news director of KIRO-TV in Seattle, will assume his position at KNBC the week of April 17, said KNBC President and General Manager Carole Black. Lord succeeds Mark Hoffman, who left the station in September following a series of disagreements with station executives and newsroom staffers.

A rock climber killed in a 150-foot fall in the back country of Kings Canyon National Park was identified as a Merced resident. Park officials said Mark Hoffman, 28, and a companion were climbing near Devil's Crag near the middle fork of the Kings River when Hoffman fell. His companion hiked for eight hours to reach a ranger station to report the accident. Hoffman was dead by the time rangers reached him by helicopter.

KNBC-TV Channel 4 is under fire from Latino journalists who charge that discrimination by management played a key role in the exit of five Latino reporters and anchors in less than five months. Current and former newsroom staffers said that Latino journalists have been consistently treated with disrespect and pushed into the background since Mark Hoffman took over as news director last March, while white male reporters received preferential treatment.

While you were publishing "Romancing the Rails" (March 24), my wife and I were journeying from Vancouver, B.C., to Halifax, N.S., on VIA, Canada's version of Amtrak. Our trip was booked through Rail Travel Center, 9 Congress St., St. Albans, Vt. We can't speak too highly of them. Their service is exceptional. Also, Canada has a rail pass, CANRAILPASS, not mentioned in your article on rail passes. MARK HOFFMAN San Clemente

Los Angeles has changed from "a lifestyle town to a news town." And local TV newsrooms that don't change with the city are doomed to lose in the only game that really matters: "recruiting and holding viewers." So believes Mark Hoffman, KNBC-TV Channel 4 news director since March, who has been charged with rejuvenating the station's news fortunes following a long run at the top and then a precipitous fall in early 1992.

April 5, 1987 | ROBERT A. JONES, Robert A. Jones is a Times staff writer.

In Part I, the Mormon Church had been unsettled by the purported discovery of a series of 19th-Century documents. Produced by a young collector named Mark Hofmann, they appeared to question official church history. In 1984, Hofmann had revealed the Salamander Letter, which gave a new, startling account of Prophet Joseph Smith's discovery of the gold plates.

KNBC-TV Channel 4 is under fire from Latino journalists who charge that discrimination by management played a key role in the exit of five Latino reporters and anchors in less than five months. Current and former newsroom staffers said that Latino journalists have been consistently treated with disrespect and pushed into the background since Mark Hoffman took over as news director last March, while white male reporters received preferential treatment.

January 6, 1993 | ALEENE MacMINN, Arts and Entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press

KNBC News: KNBC-TV Channel 4 is bringing in Mark Hoffman, news director at the CBS-owned station in Chicago, to jack up the station's sliding news ratings. Hoffman, who will become vice president, news, on March 1, replaces Nancy Valenta, who resigned as news director following the station's poor showing in last November's sweeps ratings. KNBC once dominated local news ratings but has fallen farther behind KABC-TV Channel 7 in the last year.

Charlotte Russe Inc. said fiscal third-quarter profit dropped 39% despite a 10.4% gain in sales. Mark Hoffman, chief executive of the San Diego-based retailer of young women's apparel, attributed the downturn to an early Easter holiday, which advanced sales into the second quarter, and strong year-earlier results. The company operates 388 stores under the Charlotte Russe and Rampage flags. Net income totaled $3.3 million, or 14 cents a share, compared with $5.

Los Angeles has changed from "a lifestyle town to a news town." And local TV newsrooms that don't change with the city are doomed to lose in the only game that really matters: "recruiting and holding viewers." So believes Mark Hoffman, KNBC-TV Channel 4 news director since March, who has been charged with rejuvenating the station's news fortunes following a long run at the top and then a precipitous fall in early 1992.

While you were publishing "Romancing the Rails" (March 24), my wife and I were journeying from Vancouver, B.C., to Halifax, N.S., on VIA, Canada's version of Amtrak. Our trip was booked through Rail Travel Center, 9 Congress St., St. Albans, Vt. We can't speak too highly of them. Their service is exceptional. Also, Canada has a rail pass, CANRAILPASS, not mentioned in your article on rail passes. MARK HOFFMAN San Clemente

A rock climber killed in a 150-foot fall in the back country of Kings Canyon National Park was identified as a Merced resident. Park officials said Mark Hoffman, 28, and a companion were climbing near Devil's Crag near the middle fork of the Kings River when Hoffman fell. His companion hiked for eight hours to reach a ranger station to report the accident. Hoffman was dead by the time rangers reached him by helicopter.

April 5, 1987 | ROBERT A. JONES, Robert A. Jones is a Times staff writer.

In Part I, the Mormon Church had been unsettled by the purported discovery of a series of 19th-Century documents. Produced by a young collector named Mark Hofmann, they appeared to question official church history. In 1984, Hofmann had revealed the Salamander Letter, which gave a new, startling account of Prophet Joseph Smith's discovery of the gold plates.

Sybase Inc. Chairman Mark Hoffman resigned from the software company, effective immediately, to concentrate on running a closely held electronic commerce start-up. Hoffman, 52, spent 12 years with Sybase as co-founder, president, chairman and chief executive. He will leave the Emeryville-based company to focus on Commerce One Inc., a company developing electronic commerce software products. Hoffman started Commerce One in April and is its president and chief executive.

An art expert says a watercolor found in the police property room may be the work of the late master Marc Chagall. Lt. Mike Pera noticed the 1 1/2-foot-by-2-foot painting while preparing unclaimed property for auction. "I looked at it out of curiosity and saw it was signed by Marc Chagall," he said Friday. 'Very Early Work' Art expert Mark Hoffman of Maxwell Galleries inspected the watercolor and said it could be a Chagall. If so, he said, "it is a very early work, a very sketchy one."